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Sources:
Afinogenov, Artyom. “ ‘Interview of Artiom Afinogenov.” Interview in Voices of Russia, 2003. web.archive.org/web/20100304172405/http://www.vor.ru/55/Stalingrad/History_4_eng.html
Birstein, Vadim. SMERSH: Stalin’s Secret Weapon. Biteback Publishing: 2011.
Bellamy, Chris. Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War. Knopf: 2007.
Edele, Mark. Stalinism at War: The Soviet Union in World War II. Bloomsbury Academic: 2021.
Hill, Alexander. The Red Army and the Second World War. Cambridge University Press: 2016.
Herashim, Konrad, and Marta Perzyna. “Red Army’s Penal Battalions in the memoirs of a witness of history.” Historia I Świat 7 (2018): 221-230.
Kmiecik, Jerzy. A Boy in the Gulag. Quartet Books: 1983.
McDonald, Garret J.. “Prisoners at War: Soviet Forced Labor and the Second World War..” MA diss., Texas Tech University, 2017.
Mangazeev, Igor’. “A ‘Penal Corps’ on the Kalinin Front.” The Journal of Slavic Military Studies 15, no. 3 (2002): 115-145.
Merridale, Catherine. Ivan’s War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945. Metropolitan Books: 2006.
Statiev, Alexander. “Penal Units in the Red Army.” Europe-Asia Studies 62, no. 5 (2010): 721-747.
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Sources:
Afinogenov, Artyom. “ ‘Interview of Artiom Afinogenov.” Interview in Voices of Russia, 2003. web.archive.org/web/20100304172405/http://www.vor.ru/55/Stalingrad/History_4_eng.html
Birstein, Vadim. SMERSH: Stalin’s Secret Weapon. Biteback Publishing: 2011.
Bellamy, Chris. Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War. Knopf: 2007.
Edele, Mark. Stalinism at War: The Soviet Union in World War II. Bloomsbury Academic: 2021.
Hill, Alexander. The Red Army and the Second World War. Cambridge University Press: 2016.
Herashim, Konrad, and Marta Perzyna. “Red Army’s Penal Battalions in the memoirs of a witness of history.” Historia I Świat 7 (2018): 221-230.
Kmiecik, Jerzy. A Boy in the Gulag. Quartet Books: 1983.
McDonald, Garret J.. “Prisoners at War: Soviet Forced Labor and the Second World War..” MA diss., Texas Tech University, 2017.
Mangazeev, Igor’. “A ‘Penal Corps’ on the Kalinin Front.” The Journal of Slavic Military Studies 15, no. 3 (2002): 115-145.
Merridale, Catherine. Ivan’s War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945. Metropolitan Books: 2006.
Statiev, Alexander. “Penal Units in the Red Army.” Europe-Asia Studies 62, no. 5 (2010): 721-747.
Armchair Team Credits:
docs.google.com/document/d/1sYjrtdKP67bvEH4UWOv-24_dwJGxZ395ZuczyKOUFNw/edit?usp=sharing
